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Moya Lothian-Mclean
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Dec 2, 2021

Claiming my father

I wasn’t aware I’d lost my father until 15 years after the fact. In theory, I knew he was dead; we got the call when I was 10. My mother was crying as she told us. I walked outside and sat on the hot paving stones, trying to drum up…

Loss

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Claiming my father
Claiming my father
Loss

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Banging bars of London

·Sep 13, 2021

North London

Rowans Tenpin Bowling Where is it? Finsbury Park. Opening hours? 10.30am to 12.30am Sun to Thurs, 10.30am to 1.30am Fri and Sat. What is it? One cannot render the majestic wonder of Rowans through the written word alone. Rowans is a whispered dream. Rowans is your brain on the most magic of mushrooms. Rowans is a half-remembered childhood memory of a…

London

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North London
North London
London

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Banging bars of London

·Sep 7, 2021

East London

The Queen Adelaide (by Hannah Burke) Where is it? Hackney Road — don’t confuse with the venue bearing the same name in Putney. Opening hours? 5pm-1am Monday to Wednesday, 5pm-3am Thursday and Friday, 4pm-3am Saturday, and 4pm-1am Sunday. What is it? A snug and kitchsy queer pub with a pokey basement for dancing until the wee hours. Dress code? It’s a queer venue in Hackney babes…

London

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East London
East London
London

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Banging bars of London

·Aug 17, 2021

South London

Peckham Riviera Where is it? The clue’s in the name; Peckham, South London. To be precise, Unit 4 Dovedale Trading Estate, London SE15 4QN. Opening hours? Til 12am, seven days a week. What is it? A jack of all trades but master of none. Which is to say it’s an outdoor bar under a plastic canopy serving (overpriced) cocktails, craft…

Dating

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South London
South London
Dating

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Humane Traffic

·Dec 10, 2020

Highs and lows in the Peak District

At the beginning of 2020 I went to the Peak District. It seems an odd choice to be writing about this now, 12 months after the fact. Retrospectively of course, what seemed like a quaint, but unremarkable mini-break at the time has become emblematic of a style of travel…

Travel

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Highs and lows in the Peak District
Highs and lows in the Peak District
Travel

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Mar 18, 2020

How to have socialist sex in a Tory age

A version of this article appeared in The Face Magazine. For a moment, the glimpse of a brighter world was possible. Then 10pm hit on the 12 December 2019 and the dream of our radical utopia (read: mild social democracy) lay dead at our feet. Barbarism won over the British…

Sex And Relationships

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How to have socialist sex in a Tory age
How to have socialist sex in a Tory age
Sex And Relationships

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Oct 24, 2019

The price of one’s own room: can “feminist” women’s clubs really exist?

“A woman must have money and a room of her own,” reads the Virginia Woolf quotation, plastered across the windows of an elegant Georgian townhouse in Bloomsbury. The building is home to The Allbright, a private members’ club for women billed as the ‘first in Britain’. …

Feminism

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The price of one’s own room: can “feminist” women’s clubs really exist?
The price of one’s own room: can “feminist” women’s clubs really exist?
Feminism

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Humane Traffic

·Oct 18, 2019

Longdrink and longing in Helsinki — Part II

The second time life deposited me in Helsinki, it was the beginning of August. Both I and the city had undergone radical change. In the eight months since I’d last walked Helsinki’s phenomenally clean streets, I’d jettisoned my comfy staff job at a magazine for an uncertain freelance career. In…

Travel

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Longdrink and longing in Helsinki — Part II
Longdrink and longing in Helsinki — Part II
Travel

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Humane Traffic

·Oct 18, 2019

Steaming away sadness in Helsinki — Part I

In 2019, I found myself in Helsinki twice. It was a quirk of coincidence as I had never considered visiting under my own steam at all, let alone two times in eight months. Nordic countries seemed somehow too adult for me and too expensive to boot. I had filed…

Travel

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Steaming away sadness in Helsinki — Part I
Steaming away sadness in Helsinki — Part I
Travel

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Humane Traffic

·Oct 18, 2019

Letting go in Greece

I went to Athens because I had been talking about it for so long, I feared it was going to soon join my pantheon of impossible dreams, former burning desires downgraded in status as they get superseded by something more immediately achievable. Athens, I thought, was a concept that deserved…

Travel

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Letting go in Greece
Letting go in Greece
Travel

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